[Magdalen] First fruits

[Grace Cangialosi]

You could also use the straw bale method...could plant as many as you like. Just google straw bale planting.

> On May 9, 2016, at 11:20 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> No tomatoes here (damn walnut trees!) although s/o has read of a method
> which sounds promising.....filling a 5-gallon bucket (holes drilled in the
> bottom for drainage) with good soil from elsewhere), covering the soil with
> plastic, and inserting the tomato plants through slits in the plastic, then
> keeping them in a place free of the incursions of walnut--infested soil or
> marauding squirrels with walnuts to bury. Our upper deck would be a fine
> place. I don't have my herbs in either; they normally are planted in pots
> on said upper deck, but I haven't visited my neighborhood greenhouse due to
> the exceedingly chilly, rainy weather. This week, for sure.
> 
> The greenhouse is run by a lovely Mennonite (conservative--wears "uniform
> dress" and cap, but drives) lady who employs several of her female
> relatives, including a look-alike sister, an exceedingly elderly woman who
> is either her mother or aunt, and a sweet Down's syndrome woman who does a
> great deal of the fetching and carrying and who surprised me last year by
> informing me that she was about to turn 53...I had her pegged for *much*
> younger, not because of the DS but because she simply looks about 35. In
> fact, they all look much younger than they are, except for granny. And
> Arlene (the owner) has just about the greenest thumb I've ever encountered.
> She has the best collection of herbs anywhere, year after year, and coleus
> that just knock your eye out, plus fine house plants and porch plants and
> occasional oddments of garden plants, besides the old standards in fine
> array. AND the best mulch anywhere. People come from all over just for the
> mulch.
> 
> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 12:57 AM, Rick Mashburn <ricklmashburn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Alex is the gardener on our house. Looks like we are going to have a bumper
>> crop of tomatoes this year!
>> 
>> Peace, Rick
>>> On May 8, 2016 9:43 PM, "Susan Hagen" <susanvhagen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I had a salad with tiny lettuce thinnings and baby radishes from the
>>> garden.  The cucumber was from the grocery store but it all tasted
>>> wonderful.  I weeded the asparagus patch which, sadly, seems to be
>>> fading out, probably from neglect.  Still, I get a few cuttings from
>>> it each year.  I do enjoy eating from my back yard.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among
>>> you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the
>>> land of Egypt.
>>> Leviticus 19:34
>>